icm – the reunion

It’s been almost 4 years since I graduated. *shudder* It’s been THAT long?!
The people I graduated with were are great, but the timing of my graduation was terrible. 2003 was the worst year in recent times to be a fresh grad hunting for a decent job. And to think I was reluctant to leave NUS [...]

Long time no see, Grandma

After numerous attempts to visit Grandma at the Holy Family Church columbarium, I finally got to see her on Sunday after mass. Unlike the columbarium at Holy Trinity Church, this one is a lot quieter.
And after bitching about how Grandma’s niche is located right at the bottom, it now seems like a small [...]

Saturday scramble

Woke up this morning to work. Literally rolled off the sofa and onto the computer to start updating what I needed to update. Am still at it.
Took out the laptop last night at a Liang Seah kopitiam while having dinner to finish work on a long-overdue story. Strange lady came up to me to [...]

Self-doubt will kill you

Dogged determination is way under-rated in my book.
Too often we look at folks who keep on goin’ on, despite having doors slammed in their faces, people telling them to “give up lar“, and we wonder why they even bother. They keep toiling away, running themselves against whatever brick wall they decide to bulldoze with [...]

NY @ HOME(club)

If you’ve seen the footage of the chaos along Orchard Road on New Year’s Eve, don’t you think those damn spray cans should be banned?? Especially the ones that dispense the soapy faux snow…!! It’s offensive, disgusting, can be and has been used as a tool to commit crime i.e. molest. If they sold pepper [...]

Disastrous start to 2007

Got home at 5.15am. Took a quick shower. Started work at 5.30am.
Welcome to 2007.
Bangkok’s bombed. Sinking ferries in Indonesia. And only just a few hours ago, a plane’s gone missing. Fouled up a story too.
Is it me or do calamities tend to occur when I’m on news watch?
GOOD NEWS is, I sorta got what [...]